Why Blog? For money????

I'm often asked how I came to Blogging, and for those readers who do not know, I started my first blog when I went to Ireland in 2005, and I kept a travel blog on Typepad.com. It was a site that one paid a monthly fee for, and I subsequently found a more interesting site Blogger which was also FREE, and started a number of other blogs here, and at other places.

People are interested in my house sitting too - so I can combine two of my great interests in the one site. Then people want to know how to create a blog, and then they hear that you can blog for money.

Wow, that's a whole new topic that I won't venture deeply into here, but there are several ways. One is to have advertisements from Google on your blog - which I do, and another is advertising on blogs, using a service such as Smorty. (I love the cute names that folk create too!)

Smorty is a great service connecting advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers will pay bloggers to write opinion posts with links back to the advertisers site. You need to work on your blog for a while - Smorty needs to know that you understand blogging, and have a commitment to regular posts. So you CAN
get paid for blogging

Blogging and writing for Smorty is a great way to get paid to blog, and for folk who are prolific writers, it is a fabulous way to earn extra income. If you are an advertiser, Smorty is a great place to advertise, and if you are a Blogger interested in blogging for money - make your way quickly to Smorty. It is easy to use, and they pay through PayPal.

Comments

Di Hill said…
Someone left a comment, and I "approved" it before I read it, and it simply disappeared. So if you (anonymous) left a comment here and it has gone, it was not intentional, and if you visit again, I'd love to read your comment. Sorry.
Di Hill said…
Very interesting read-Actually VERY helpful-we are thinking of buying
land and building on the island-what do u think? Its at 26 Wyena
Avenue, Lamb Island-we are not sure it might have sold but we are
looking to buy-do u know of anyone who might have a plot? When u say it
is cold in the winter what is the temperature(day & night)-my email
gazskinner@yahoo.comwe are in the UK at the moment-if u could comment
that would be great!
Anonymous said…
Very interesting read-Actually VERY helpful-we are thinking of buying
land and building on the island-what do u think? Its at 26 Wyena
Avenue, Lamb Island-we are not sure it might have sold but we are
looking to buy-do u know of anyone who might have a plot? When u say it
is cold in the winter what is the temperature(day & night)-my email
gazskinner@yahoo.comwe are in the UK at the moment-if u could comment
that would be great!
Di Hill said…
Weird, first the comment disappears, and then when I put it in, it reappears.
Unknown said…
Hi,

Still trying to add links,banners,buttons and Kontera to my blog.

How did you do it?

Regards

Peter
Di Hill said…
Kiwi Pete,

It is all easy with Blogger.

Di